Public Health
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() NEW! A Life Spent Listening |
A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili. In … | Hassan Khalili | 224 | 2022 | View |
![]() Basic Income For CanadiansFrom the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All |
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put … | Evelyn L. Forget | 258 | 2020 | View |
![]() NEW! Country of PoxesThree Germs and the Taking of Territory |
Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 208 | 2022 | View |
![]() Field ExcercisesHow Veterans are Healing Themselves Through Farming and Outdoor Activities |
There are nearly 25 million veterans and active-duty soldiers in North America. Some experts estimate that more than one quarter of these men and women suffer from post-traumatic distress, and … | Stephanie Westlund | 242 | 2014 | View |
![]() Fighting For SpaceHow a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction |
North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of … | Travis Lupick | 408 | 2017 | View |
![]() Health and WealthHow Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being |
This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when … | Monica Townson | 136 | 1999 | View |
![]() MedicareFacts, Myths, Problems & Promise |
Most health care professionals are committed to the principles of medicare, and so are most other Canadians. Yet everyone recognizes that the health care system has serious problems, and often … | Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon | 2007 | View | |
![]() Nature-Based TherapyA Practitioner's Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families |
The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 304 | 2019 | View |
![]() OppressionA Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition |
In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of … | Elizabeth A. McGibbon | 264 | 2021 | View |
![]() Out LoudEssays on Mental Illness, Stigma & Recovery |
Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and friends, by … | Ramona Dearing | 240 | 2010 | View |
![]() Secret Life of Your MicrobiomeWhy Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness |
The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 387 | 2017 | View |
![]() NEW! Shadows and LightA Physician's Lens on Covid |
When the pandemic began in March 2020, Calgary emergency physician Heather Patterson was already feeling burnt out. Photography had always been a way of unwinding for her, and as the pandemic … | Heather Patterson | 176 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! The Socialist Register 2022New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism |
The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far ‘centrist’ … | Colin Leys; Greg Albo; Leo Panitch | 352 | 2021 | View |
![]() The World After CovidThe Munk Dialogues on a Pandemic |
From the world-renowned Munk Debates comes a collection of dialogues by leading intellectuals envisioning our post-pandemic future. During this time of social distancing, the acclaimed Munk … | Rudyard Griffiths | 153 | 2021 | View |
From ![]() An Introduction to Nature for TherapyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
Promoting a dose of nature clarifies the minimum time exposure people should be outdoors and seeks to highlight the socioecological benefits this natural, accessible, and free health remedy can … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() NEW! ForewordFrom: Country of Poxes |
Forward from Dr. Darlene Kitty. | Darlene Kitty | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |